Government

It’s not easy for older authority figures to reach youth through digital media, but Vice President Of The United States Joe Biden is giving it the old college try. In this video for Funny Or Die, the VPOTUS teams...

How’s that for a clickbait headline? In this Funny or Die video, part of their Everyone Votes campaign for Rock The Vote, the bubbly pop singer encourages young American voters to go to the polls on Tuesday, November 8, wearing whatever...

“Beauty has no age. Fertility does.” That’s the message of this social media campaign by the government of Italy, intended to combat the country’s plummeting birthrate. This one says, “Aging and childbearing : the risks of delaying the happy...

Baby-boomer’s-baby-boomer and entrepreneur Richard Branson has backed a global campaign against capital punishment: #DeathPenaltyFail. #DeathPenaltyFail https://t.co/RvDPkSYKHs pic.twitter.com/8VxVHgjADV — Richard Branson (@richardbranson) August 25, 2016 Using his massive media empire, Branson has focussed his sights especially on the United States as...

This is about as irreverent as they come. The Australian Sex Party, which despite its name has a broad civil liberties agenda, recently fired a blasphemous shot across the bow of one of the world’s most powerful religious institutions: The Roman...

This short film with the masterpiece “Pink and Blue” (1881) from famous painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir as storyline vehicle is a masterpiece itself. Because it is so gripping and because the authors have succeeded to portray personal stories in a very...

Anne of Green Gables, the fictional character first published by Lucy Maud Montgomery in 1908, has become an icon of Canadian children’s literature and a major tourist draw for the province of Prince Edward Island (PEI). In the books, Anne...

Stoner Sloth, an anti-marijuana campaign from Australia’s New South Wales Health, is going viral for all the wrong reasons: The series of PSA videos, complete with a Facebook Page and other outreach, was intended to make youths see that they will...

All the hype around Star Wars: The Force Awakens is taking me back to 1977, when I was seven years old and the original film was just about the biggest thing in the world. In the years following, kids couldn’t...

**Trigger Warning: Sexual Harassment, Bullying, Implied Rape** In March, I wrote about the Government of Ontario’s great new anti-sexual-assault campaign, #WhoWillYouHelp. Now, they’re addressing some more subtle forms of harassment, both sexual and bullying, by having the offenders speak plainly...